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• NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HS BACK AT CLICHéD QUTNS ABOUT PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER
• GAY CHARACTERS NEIGHBOURS & HOME AND AWAY.
• NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HAS ‘NO DIFFICULTY’ PLAYG GAY CHARACTER
• FIRST REGULAR GAY CHARACTER FOR NEIGHBOURS
• NEIGHBOURS STAR DIGS HIMSELF A HOLE ‘IGNORANT’ TERVIEW ABOUT GAY CHARACTER
• NEIGHBOURS' MATT WILSON APOLOGIS AFTER 'GAY' BACKLASH
• WHY DAVE FRAN'S NEIGHBORS 2 CHARACTER WILL BE GAY
• 'NEIGHBOURS' STS NEW GAY CHARACTER
• ‘NEIGHBOURS’ STAR MATT WILSON SPARKS BACKLASH OVER COMMENTS ABOUT GAY MEN DURG 'THE WRIGHT STUFF' INTERVIEW
• ‘NEIGHBOURS’ STAR MATT WILSON SPARKS BACKLASH OVER COMMENTS ABOUT GAY MEN DURG 'THE WRIGHT STUFF' INTERVIEW

NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HS BACK AT CLICHéD QUTNS ABOUT PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER

Neighbours star Takaya Honda has h back at clichéd qutns about playg a gay straight actor, who portrays David Tanaka the Channel 5 soap, appeared at Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras alongsi his on-screen hband Matt Wilson (Aaron Brennan), when he ma the impassned Instagram post. "We get asked, more often than I thk we should, 'What's like to play a gay character as a straight actor, do you fd difficult?

"Firstly, who uld fd hard to play gay oppose this credible man? The task we are given is to evoke wh the dience that feelg of love and have them believe that we are love, and that would go whether our characters were gay, straight or other.

"There is no gree of difficulty add bee the characters are gay. You would be fiven for thkg that stralia dont have ANY gay people livg there:rolley:.

GAY CHARACTERS NEIGHBOURS & HOME AND AWAY.

what is the al wh the plete lack of any gay characters eher of the soaps, or any talk of homosexualy what-so-ever! Charlie had a girliend Home and Away, although she has a boyiend aga now, and there is a gay boy Neighbours but I n't remember his name. Chris has jt e out as gay on Neighbours, problem is that he isn't a ma character and acrdg to reports, they don't know what to do wh the character.

Home and Away had a uple of gay characters.

NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HAS ‘NO DIFFICULTY’ PLAYG GAY CHARACTER

Chris, Pippa's son, is gay.

FIRST REGULAR GAY CHARACTER FOR NEIGHBOURS

The producers of H&A have always said there was no pot tryg to have gay characters G rated shows as the l regardg what n't be shown ma impossible anyway.

This has been discsed many tim on this fom, Atralia is a backward and nservative untry that don't like seeg gay people on tv. I don't thk that gay people should appear any programme jt to tick a box.

I thk there has to be a fair repersentatn of gay/lbian people soaps as there is real life. Atralia is very backward lookg when to portrayg gay people on screen.

NEIGHBOURS STAR DIGS HIMSELF A HOLE ‘IGNORANT’ TERVIEW ABOUT GAY CHARACTER

I have heard that Atralians don't like gay people their soaps as is a very nservative untry and I thk I am right sayg that some stat homosexualy is still banned. I'm que suprised that homosexualy uld still be banned certa really bad!!! I agree that gay/lbian people need to be reprented on tv, but not necsarily soaps.

NEIGHBOURS' MATT WILSON APOLOGIS AFTER 'GAY' BACKLASH

The people that are voved soaps seem to lack creativy or are unwillg to e up wh proper storyl for gay/lbian people. I would like to see a storyle that volv a gay person, but is not about their sexualy, personally I'm sick of the syoryl where g out "is" the storyle. Methodyguy, be sure to let know which Atralian stat ban homosexualy.

Neighbours star Takaya Honda, who plays David Tanaka the soap, has h back at people who ask him if he fds “difficult” to play a gay character.

WHY DAVE FRAN'S NEIGHBORS 2 CHARACTER WILL BE GAY

Takaya Honda – who ma history alongsi -star Matt Wilson last year when they picted the first gay weddg on the soap – ma the ments an Instagram post. “Who uld fd hard to play gay oppose this credible man? Wrg on Instagram, the actor said: “We get asked, more often than I thk we should, ‘what’s like to play a gay character as a straight actor, do you fd difficult?

“Firstly, who uld fd hard to play gay oppose this credible man?

Neighbours has got s first gay regular gay character. Neighbours, which is 25 years old, has had temporary gay characters before and has screened several lbian kiss.

'NEIGHBOURS' STS NEW GAY CHARACTER

In an terview wh Atralian gay publitn Same Same last week, Mason said that fans had asked for a gay character. The producers were pretty keen on givg the viewers what they want, and they noticed there was a high mand for a gay character to e on the show.

He add that the storyle would be “pretty genue” as me om gay scriptwrers who had been through g out. A straight actor who plays a gay character on Neighbours has been rid over ments about flamboyant gay characters.

‘NEIGHBOURS’ STAR MATT WILSON SPARKS BACKLASH OVER COMMENTS ABOUT GAY MEN DURG 'THE WRIGHT STUFF' INTERVIEW

Atralian actor Matt Wilson, who is straight real life, plays gay Neighbours character Aaron Brennan on the long-nng soap. He said: “There’s a lot of people sayg, why don’t you get a gay person to play a gay character? Drkg game for gays and non-gays.

The actor then went on to claim that was important he had the role so that the character uld “act straight” and “normal”, htg out at “flamboyant” gay characters. Ironilly, had a gay actor played the role they probably wouldn’t have dug themselv such a ep hole wh such ignorant ments.

'My choice of words wasn't right': Matt Wilson apologis after ntroversial remarks about his gay Neighbours character actg 'normal' and 'straight' Updated: 16:10 BST, 6 July 2017.

‘NEIGHBOURS’ STAR MATT WILSON SPARKS BACKLASH OVER COMMENTS ABOUT GAY MEN DURG 'THE WRIGHT STUFF' INTERVIEW

He plays a gay character, Aaron Brennan, on long-nng TV soap actor Matt Wilson faced a backlash after claimg his character was purposefully wrten to be a 'straight actg' an terview on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff last week, the 29-year-old said stripper Aaron was characterised to 'act straight and act normal' down for vio Controversy: Neighbours star Matt Wilson (pictured) faced a backlash after sayg on Brish televisn last week his character was purposefully wrten to be a 'straight actg' homosexualHe add: 'And when I say normal, like, he don't stand out among the crowd. 'Matt then pared his character wh the gay men US seri Morn Fay, who he scribed as 'flamboyant' and 'mp. ' The former rpenter also said there had been much discsn over whether the role should have been given to a gay actor.